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News Quality Guidelines: ● The content on the website must be considered news content: ○ Google News generally does not include how-to articles, advice columns, job postings or informational content such as weather forecasts. ● No marketing - sites that are used primarily as marketing tools for a product or service will not be included ● Reporting must be original and unique: ○ Aggregated content will need to be separated from original content (robots.txt). ● "The best news sites exhibit clear authority and expertise." ● Users value news site with accountability: ○ Author biographies and clear contact information. ● Sites should be user-friendly: ○ URL redirects should be used rarely. ○ Clearly written articles with correct spelling and grammar! ○ Google can only include sites that follow their Webmaster Guidelines.1. Google News @paulwould www.paulwould.com a. News Quality Guidelines

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Technical Guidelines:The following technical guidelines are designed to allow the Google News algorithm to recognise newsarticles on your website. ● Each URL must contain a unique and permanent number of at least 3 digits to ensure Google only crawls new articles. ● Links must be HTML links with anchor text - Google News cannot crawl JavaScript, graphic links or links found in iframes. ● Articles must be formatted in HTML - Google News cannot crawl and index PDFs and other non-HTML file formats. ● Google News user agent must be allowed to crawl and access content on your site (robots.txt). ● Google News cannot currently include multimedia content however can crawl copy included with multimedia files and sometimes includes YouTube content.1. Google News @paulwould www.paulwould.com b. Technical Guidelines

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It is good for SEO:Getting search engine results like this improves your search engine click-through rates:It is good for your career:The result above has enhanced the profile of my own blog and also shows that Google knows that thecontent indexed is by Paul Wood - which links through to my Google+ profile. Google is building up anindex of all of the content I am responsible for across various websites.If you arent building up an online author profile you are missing a trick - my bet is that newsorganisations will be employing based on an authors online clout in the future!WINOL can also build an online profile based on its status as a publisher.2. Authorship & Online Profile @paulwould www.paulwould.com a. Advantages of Author Attribution

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Linking Content to Author Profile: 1. Make sure you have a profile photo with a recognisable headshot. 2. Make sure a byline containing your name appears on each page of your content. 3. Make sure your byline name matches the name on your Google+ profile. 4. Verify that you have an email address on the same domain as your content - If this is not possible there is another method of setting up Google Author markup.https://plus.google.com/authorshipNB. You must have a Google+ account and profile in order for this to work.WordPress has a number of free plugins that can help setup and manage the above process.2. Authorship & Online Profile @paulwould www.paulwould.com b. Website Markup & Google+

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What is a canonical tag?"A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content." - Thecanonical tag identifies what the canonical URL is for any duplicated page.Why use a canonical tag?It stops duplicate content issues. As a bonus, if someone scrapes your site (uses a robot to steal yourcontent) they may also pick up your canonical tag and the content will only be indexed under itscanonical URL.What does a canonical tag look like?<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com" />The tag should be placed in the <head> section of each page.3. Technical SEO @paulwould www.paulwould.com c. Canonicals

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Example of need to use canonical tag:http://winol.co.ukhttp://winol.co.uk/winolHOMEThese URLs lead to the same content on your website but in the eyes of a search engine are uniqueURLs and as such should contain unique information.By placing the following tag in the <head> section of your homepage template you can allow searchengines to index the correct version of your homepage:<link rel="canonical" href="http://winol.co.uk" />3. Technical SEO @paulwould www.paulwould.com c. Canonicals

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Headline: ● For the user. ● For the day the news breaks. ● Should appear on page of news article.Page Title: ● For the search engine - logical, meaningful and keyword focussed. ● For indexing your article correctly on Google for archive purposes. ● Should appear in the source code of news article.Action:In many cases (as above), your page title and headline should be two different things. Your headlinecan draw in the reader but the phrase "planet tabloid does not mean much to a search engine. Using amore relevant page title would allow Google to index your page in the search results more successfullyand increase the long term traffic the article receives.4. Technical SEO @paulwould www.paulwould.com a. Headlines & Page Titles

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BBC News uses meta descriptions:<meta name="Description" content="There is no evidence so far that a "third party" was involved in thedeath of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, police say."/> Clean summary of story makes for a better search result.WINOL doesnt:Writers should write meta descriptions to summarise their stories when they submit them to the site.Meta descriptions form an important part of what the user sees when they find your search results onGoogle.NB: Meta descriptions should be no longer than 160 characters.4. Technical SEO @paulwould www.paulwould.com b. Meta Descriptions

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How do search engines look at images?Most of the time search engines will use image ALT tags, filenames and surrounding text-basedcontent to work out what an image is.Google Image Search can be a good source of traffic and is an important part of photojournalism. Filename: 8533343155_5d2bc9bf21_b-300x200.jpeg ALT tag: "Courtesy of Southampton University Physics Centre" This image could be optimised by using the following filename and ALT tag: southampton-bear-in-space.jpg "Bear in Space - Courtesy of Southampton University Physics Centre"4. Technical SEO @paulwould www.paulwould.com c. Image ALT Tags & Filenames